#ge

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood. ↗

#church #circus #country #deserves #every

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ↗

— Erica Jong

#ahead #back #change #despite #fear

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word. ↗

— Erica Jong

#adored #attacked #become #book #daughters

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets. ↗

— Erica Jong

#became #even #first #getting #i

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving. ↗

— Erica Jong

#actually #bad #enough #friends #getting

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge. ↗

— Erica Jong

#battlefield #bedroom #category #class #feeling

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#good #good men #illustrate #live #men

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#language #man #may #most #see

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion! ↗

— Ben Jonson

#clocks #engine #forget #his #keep

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. ↗